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Heal Your Gut, Heal Your Mind
Depression can start with a leaky gut — here’s how to make it end there, by healing your microbiome
It would be foolish to believe that depression can be overcome with a single solution.
But for some people, the light at the end of the tunnel shines in a very surprising place.
It certainly did for me. Healing my depression came with healing my gastrointestinal tract—my gut.
When I became a nutrition student in 1992, I had a lot of healing to do. I had the irritable bowel from hell. No treatment had worked: not conventional medicine, nor the truly woo-woo stuff.
What I discovered, as a student, was that I had something called a “leaky gut”. Cue much hilarity at that.
The term leaky gut conjures up an image of cartoonish pseudoscience. But when given its scientific nomenclature — “intestinal permeability” — the idea immediately gains credibility.
Furthermore, the scientific evidence for the association between gut health and brain health is strong and gathering momentum.